Chords for William S. Burroughs - A Thanksgiving Prayer

_ _ For John Dillinger, in hope he is still alive. _ _ _
Thanksgiving Day, November [Ab] 28th, _
[Db] _ 1986.
[F] _ _ _ [Bbm] Thanks for the wild turkey and passenger pigeons [Gb] destined to be [Eb] shed out through [G] wholesome [Bb] American guts. _
_ _ [Db] Thanks for a continent [Bb] to [Db] despoil and poison.
[Gb] _ _ _ [Db] _ _
_ [Ab] Thanks for Indians to [Db] provide a modicum of challenge.
_ _ _ [Gb] _ _
[G] Thanks for vast herds [Db] of bison to kill and skin, leaving the carcasses to [Bbm] rot.
_ [Ab] _
_ _ Thanks for bounties [Gb] on wolves and [Ebm] coyotes.
[Ab] _ _ _ [Db] _ _
[Bbm] Thanks for the American [Ab] dream
to [Eb] vulgarize and _ [Ab] falsify
until the bare [Db] lives _ [F] shine. _
_ [Bbm] _ _ _ _ [Ab] Thanks for the [Gb] KKK for [Eb] nigger-killing [Ab] _
lawmen feeding [Bb] their notches.
[Db] _ _
_ [Bbm] For decent church-going women with their mean,
_ [Db] pinched, bitter, _
[Bb] evil faces.
_ _ [Db] _ _
_ _ _ Thanks for kill a queer for Christ [Ebm] stickers.
_ _ [Gm] _ Thanks for [Db] laboratory AIDS.
_ [Bbm] _ _
Thanks for prohibition [F] and the war [Db] against [Bbm] drugs.
_ _ [Gm] _ _
_ [Fm] Thanks for a country where [Bbm] nobody is [Abm] allowed to mind his [G] own business.
[Ab] Thanks for a nation of pinks.
_ [Dbm] Yes, thanks for [F] all the memories.
[Bb] All right, let's [Abm] see your arm.
[Gb] _ _ You [Eb] _ always [Ab] were a headache, and you always [Db] were a more.
_ [Gb] _ _ _ _ [Db] Thanks for the [Bbm] last and greatest [Bb] betrayal _ of the last and [Db] greatest of
_ _ human dreams.
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